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# terminable

«terminable» in Mova's school dictionary: **able to be ended or stopped, especially a contract or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Terminable means able to be ended or stopped, especially a contract or agreement (formal, law). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terminable/#m1)

2) Terminable can describe something that has a limited time and will end. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terminable/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

This is a stiff legal and exam word. In adult life, a job contract or a rental agreement might be «terminable by either side with one month's notice», meaning either person can end it. Children meet it in exam texts rather than in speech. Phrases: terminable at will, terminable on notice.

### examples

- The contract is terminable with one month's notice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terminable/#x1)
- The agreement is terminable if either side breaks the rules. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terminable/#x2)
- The lease was terminable at any time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terminable/#x3)
- The job was terminable after the trial period. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terminable/#x4)
- Is this deal terminable, or does it last for ever? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terminable/#x5)

### note

Formal, rare word. Verb: terminate (end); opposite: interminable, which strangely means «seeming to go on for ever, very long and boring» (an interminable speech).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «terminable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terminable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.